"I do, but she won’t go out," Lucas defended himself.
Actually, Chloe Grant had lost weight, but not excessively so. She was about 90 pounds now, still considered a pretty standard figure.
But to Isabella Gray, it was ridiculously thin!
As an elder, she felt that girls looked better with a bit more weight.
Moreover, Chloe Grant looked cutest when she was chubby and fair!
"You just keep muddling through! Tell me, what on earth have you done right?"
Lucas Morgan was too agitated, and Isabella Gray was too tired to argue, so she simply set her chopsticks aside and returned to the dining table.
"Sweetie, you need to eat more."
Isabella Gray, who had been stern with Lucas, turned exceptionally gentle with Chloe Grant, even coaxing her.
Chloe Grant nodded, bowed her head, and ate as much as she could.
It wasn’t that she wouldn’t look up, but she couldn’t...
Because at that moment, Chloe Grant couldn’t control her tears.
She felt a bittersweet sadness, but also very happy.
This was the most Chloe Grant had eaten in a meal for quite some time.
After eating, she went for a walk with Isabella Gray before returning to her room to sleep.
The familiar scent made Chloe Grant want to cry.
She thought she would never return to this room.
Her heart was filled with emotion.
Chloe Grant thought she wouldn’t sleep well that night and might even have insomnia due to her emotions.
The opposite happened.
Not only did she fall asleep quickly, but she also slept soundly and even had a sweet dream.
However, that sweet dream was abruptly interrupted by the sudden ringing of her phone.
Chloe Grant reached for her phone, answered it, and still half-asleep, muttered, "Hello?"
After a moment, there was no response from the other side of the call.
Feeling strange, Chloe rubbed her tired eyes, took the phone away to check, and realized the call had actually been going on for over ten minutes.
After her earlier "hello," she had dozed off again.
Feeling puzzled, Chloe said "hello" again, but there was still no response.
Must have been a wrong number.
Chloe didn’t overthink it, hung up the phone, and went back to sleep.
However, just after she hung up, the phone rang again.
This time, Chloe was completely awake. She turned over, picked up the call, "Hello, you..." Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs NoveI★Fire.net
"Chloe Grant, you’ll get what’s coming to you!"
A terrifyingly ominous voice suddenly came through the receiver, causing a shiver in Chloe’s heart, making her fling the phone away.
The voice was so cold, so eerie...
Chloe took several deep breaths to calm her racing heart a little.
She swallowed, and with trembling hands, picked up the phone again.
The call was still connected.
And it was from an unfamiliar number, located within this city.
Chloe put the phone back to her ear, her hands were shaking.
As soon as Chloe spoke, the other end hung up immediately.
"Was it a hallucination? Or was it a prank?"
Chloe murmured as she stared at the strange number.
Of course, in the middle of the night, she didn’t have the courage to call back.
After staring for a while, Chloe finally set the phone aside, but she definitely couldn’t fall back asleep.
She tossed and turned in bed for quite a while, eventually grabbing a flashlight and leaving the room.
From a very young age, she had developed a habit—